+ 1799.] 
including children, from April 1797 to 
April 1798, was 320 inthe houfe. Your 
correfpondent could have been informed 
of thefe particulars, had he thought proper 
to have made the inquiry ; and it certain- 
ly is not right to ftigmatize any inftitution 
upon hearfay evidence. I further beg to 
inform your corre{pondent, that the differ- 
ent churchwardens pay to the poor in 
their refpeétive parifhes nearly goool. an- 
nually, and only account to the Governors 
of the Houle of Induftry for the balance 
of their rates, after dedudting their dif- 
burfements, 
-T rely upon your candour to introduce 
this reply in the next number of your ufeful 
mifcellany, as weil for the information of 
A. B. as toremove the unfavourable im- 
prefion fuch unfounded reports may have. 
made, coming through fo very reipectable 
a channel. | 
Iam Sir, your obedient humble Servant, 
THomMas BATCHELOR. 
Briffol, Fune 12, 1799. 
N.B. The houfe is attended by three fuyr- 
gcons, an apothecary, anda chaplain, daily. 
ee aie 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR correfpondent I. C. has pro- 
" poied a fubjeé for the confideration 
of the readers of your ufeful mifcellany, 
which is pretty generally allowed to be at- 
tended with confiderable difficulty, name- 
ly, the Origin of Springs. Some letters on 
this fubjeé&t, by two or three anonymous 
writers, by Mr. Kay of Aberford, | and 
myfelf, have appeared in the three or four 
Jait Numbers of ‘* The Mathematical and 
Philofophical Repofitory,’’ and I believe an- 
other letter on the fame fubjeét will ap- 
pear in No. 8. of that publication. But I 
am much atraid that after all which has 
been written relative to the Origin of 
Springs, in the work now referred to, the 
maiter is by no means decifively fettled, 
and perhaps the various hypothetes which 
have been advanced will be long before 
they have any thing more than probability 
in fupport of any of them. I am, how- 
ever, of opinion with I.C. that “by a 
clofer attention to the. fituation, appear- 
ances, &c. of fprings themfelves” a more 
fatistagtory acquaintance might be gained 
both with their nature and origin: I would 
theretore join in that gentleman’s requett, 
- and I hope fome of your numerous and 
insenious correfpondents will be able to 
communicate fuch a feries of obfervations 
as thal] have a great tendency to remeve 
the dihculty, 
Making Vinegar—Old Hundredth Tune. 
609. 
In your Magazine for this month, R.H,. 
of Exeter, inquires what is the cheapeft, 
SJimplef?, and mott expeditious mode of mak- 
ing vinegar? It will, probably, be not 
very eafy to meet with a method in which 
all the qualities of cheapnefs, fimplicity, 
and expedition are united; though I am 
not without hopes that fuch a method 
may be communicated to you. A few 
years ago a lady of Warwickihire told me 
the way in which fhe made vinegar, and, 
as it had cheapneis and fimplicity, though 
not expedition, to recomshend it, Imade it 
known to feveral perfons, who immediately 
adopted it: it has fince been tried in my 
own family, and the vinegar which was 
thus made is as good as any I ever met 
with. The method is as here detcribed ; 
‘© To every gallon of water, put a pound 
of coarfe Lifbon-{ugar ; let the mixture be 
boiled, and keep fkimming it fo long as 
any {cum arifes. Then let it) be poured 
into proper. veffels, and when it is as cool 
as beer when worked, let a warm toatft 
rubbed over with yeaft be put to it. Let 
it work about twenty-four hours, and then 
put it in a iron-hooped cafk, and fixed ei- 
ther near a conftant fire, or where the fum- 
mer fun fhines greater part of the day: 
in this fituation it fhould not .be clofely 
ftopped up, but a tile or fomething fimi- 
lar laid on the bung-hole to keep out the 
duft and infects. At the end of about 
three months (fometimes lefS) it will be 
clear and fit for ufe, and may be bottled 
off. The longer it is kept after it is bot- 
tled, the better it will be. If the veffel 
containing the liquor is to be expofed to the 
fan’s heat, the beft time to begin making 
it is in April.” 
ee ee 
In anfwer to the inquiry of C.A.R. re- 
ative to the author of the melody of the 
old hundredth pfalm tune, I beg juft to 
fay, that fome time ago, I met with an 
old book, the title of which I ‘have now 
forgotten, in which it was ftated that 
Martia Luther was the author of the me- 
Jody of this tune, but that’ the bafs, the 
2nd. and the counter-tenor were put to 
it by a Dr. Fohn Dowland. But on what 
kind of evidence this ftatement retts, or 
in what part of the laft century this Dr. 
Dowland lived, I have not been able to 
determine. I have feen mufic-books pub- 
lithed at the latter end of the laft century 
and the beginning of the prefent, by Play- 
ford, Broome, Green, and others, in which 
the tune was, to the belt of my recollec- 
tion, conftantly afcribed to Dowland. 
May I be permitted to relate a Cir- 
cum({tance concerning this tune? A few 
( years 
